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Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Kings MS 1
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Kings_MS_1
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

SpainCataloniaSolsona

Summary

Bible (the 'King's Bible'), with vowel-points and accents.

Notes

• Yitsḥaḳ ben Yudah of Tulusa (Toulouse): inscribed with his name on the frontispiece and in the colophon, Solsona , Kislew 5145 [1384] (folios 2v, 427r).
   
• Laurentius D'Arvieux (b. 1635, d. 1702), French traveller and diplomat, consul for France and Holland at Aleppo: Latin title page added by him (folio 1r); purchased in 1683.
   
• Latin account on the history of the manuscript, 16th century (folio 1v).
   
• Benjamin Kennicott (b. 1718, d. 1783), English biblical scholar: his translation of the Latin account on folio 1v, 1768 (a paper sheet affixed on folio [i verso]).
   
• King George III (b. 1738, d. 1820): his stamp on upper and lower covers.
   

Extent

429 folios; 429 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather, 18th century, gold tooled with the monogram of George III. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 32; written lines: 32; Uniform layout. Ruling and pricking are visible. Flesh and hair side are distinguishable. Pagination and decorated chapter numbers - both with Hebrew characters - are later additions (after 1683). Remains of inscriptions probably printed from another consecutive page presently missing, upside down and right to left ( folio [i recto]). Numerous decorations: 1 full-page frontispiece, 2 full-page miniatures of Temple implements, 3 full-page miniatures in colours and gold. Numerous decorated initial-word panels and chapter numbers. In the Pentateuch the masorah parva is frequently added in the margins and between the columns. Joshua 1-2 is provided with the masorah magna and parva, as well as Judges 16 to 1Samuel 11 (folios 127v-136r). Judges, Samuel, Jonah, Habakuk, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes begin a new column, and Deuteronomy, Nahum, Zechariah, Malachi and Lamentations begin a new leaf.

Script

Sefardi square script, last quarter of 14th century, punctuated. Ya῾aḳov ben Yosef of Ripoll: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Solsona, Kislew 5145 [1384] (folio 427r).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 6r — Masoretic lists
• fol. 8v — Genesis
• fol. 31r — Exodus
• fol. 51r — Leviticus
• fol. 65v — Numbers
• fol. 87r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 105v — Joshua
• fol. 118v — Judges
• fol. 131r — Samuel
• fol. 163r — Kings
• fol. 196r — Isaiah
• fol. 218r — Jeremiah
• fol. 246r — Ezekiel
• fol. 270v — Hosea
• fol. 273v — Joel
• fol. 275r — Amos
• fol. 277v — Obadiah
• fol. 278r — Jonah
• fol. 279r — Micah
• fol. 280v — Nahum
• fol. 281v — Habakuk
• fol. 282v — Zephaniah
• fol. 283v — Hagai
• fol. 284r — Zechariah
• fol. 288v — Malachi
• fol. 289v — Psalms
• fol. 330r — Ruth
• fol. 331v — Job
• fol. 348v — Proverbs
• fol. 363r — Song of Songs
• fol. 364v — Lamentations
• fol. 367r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 370v — Esther
• fol. 374v — Daniel
• fol. 382r — Ezra
• fol. 395r — Chronicles
• fol. 427v — Index